Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Tencent EdgeOne; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior Cloud Solution Architect to drive the design and delivery of innovative cloud solutions and serve their global project pipeline. Candidates should have technical experience with cloud platforms, ideally with skills in AWS, GCP, and strong bilingual communication. This role allows for significant impact within a dynamic team and offers competitive salary prospects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Solutions Engineering or related role.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services.
• Proven success in delivering complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide full lifecycle support for cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with sales to build customer relationships.
• Define industry-level solutions for cloud adoption.

Skills

Fluency in English and Chinese

Solutions Engineering

Technical Architecture

Lateral troubleshooting skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

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Cloud & Smart Industries Group (CSIG) is responsible for promoting the company's cloud and industry Internet strategy. CSIG explores the interactions between users and industries to create innovative solutions for smart industries via technological advancements such as cloud, AI, and network security. While driving the digitalization of retail, medical, education, transportation and other industries, CSIG helps companies serve users in smarter ways, building a new ecosystem of intelligent industries that connect users and businesses.

What the Role Entails

Tencent Cloud is seeking a customer facing Senior Cloud Solution Architect with extensive project consulting/implementation experience on at least one of the major public cloud platforms, plus full stack design and delivery skills. This senior SA role will work with the sales team closely to provide full lifecycle support for our customers, which could include understanding the customers’ business use cases, collecting the technical requirements, providing technical architecture recommendations based on Tencent Cloud/industry best practice, assisting implementation and deployment in customers QA and/or production environments, as well as issue trouble-shooting when necessary.

Having worked extensively as a solutions consultant, the right candidate will excel at working with customers to. They will collaboratively define prioritized implementation plans, ensure that the customer's own engineering and business teams consider all key cloud related critical path actions (such as access controls, private/public network separation, and data replication/recovery zones, etc.), and define the necessary functional test and integration requirements,. They will have led the successful delivery completion of multiple multi availability zone, cross region, PaaS based implementations, and in the delivery of handover documentation to stakeholder groups throughout each project stage.

Based in Palo Alto, CA, this person will work closely with the local sales, solutions, and technical teams, to service the global project pipeline. At the same time, they will also proactively define industry level solutions, combining Tencent and third party products, to enable wider service adoption.

Become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Tencent Cloud Services Platform

• Remove Sales obstacles by providing internal consulting, training, and knowledge support
• Partner with Sales to build long-term account relationships, that deliver ongoing business value
• Develop Tencent Cloud-based demonstrations and solutions that successfully meet customer requirements
• Collaborate with internal Product and Engineering teams to diagnose and resolve problem cases
• Contribute to solution design, technical documentation, and complete awareness within the Solutions Team

Who We Look For

• Fluency in English and Chinese, both speaking and writing
• Bachelor's degree (or higher), with exposure to computer science, math, engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years’ experience in a Solutions Engineering or Pre/Post-Sales role, or demonstrated success in a related field
• Experience with physical and virtualized infrastructure, operating systems, and software configuration
• Experience with CDN/web caching, large file download, HTTP headers, and HTTP debugging tools
• Exposure to DNS, load balancing, HTTP web applications, mobile apps, and live streaming (audio/video)
• Experience in A/B testing, HTTP application and network performance analysis, and technical report writing
• Awareness of cloud compute cost models, network topology, platform services, and common storage option
• Awareness of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and other cloud providers
• Overall technical savvy with demonstrated ability in work in a small team setting, owning complex technical projects with international scope
• Experience managing and collaborating on long-term implementation projects, with documented results
• Lateral and logical troubleshooting, follow-through and problem-solving skills, resourcefulness, attention to detail, and communication skills

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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